diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 10aabd33..25b5a158 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
## python-markdown2 2.5.6 (not yet released)
+- [pull #770] Fix `numbering` extra dropping the space between the caption text and the number (`Table1` instead of `Table 1`)
- [pull #762] Speed up documents with many links by skipping the backslash-escape scan for text without a backslash
- [pull #748] Speed up `_unescape_special_chars` by skipping text with no hashes and dropping the full-text comparison per pass (#635)
- [pull #749] URL-encode destinations generated by the `link-patterns` extra (#55)
diff --git a/lib/markdown2.py b/lib/markdown2.py
index d6285404..3f6159ed 100755
--- a/lib/markdown2.py
+++ b/lib/markdown2.py
@@ -4132,6 +4132,8 @@ def run(self, text: str):
continue
counter = match.group(1)
text_before = match.group(2).strip()
+ if text_before:
+ text_before += ' '
ref_id = match.group(3)
text_after = match.group(4)
number = counters.get(counter, 1)
diff --git a/test/tm-cases/numbering.text b/test/tm-cases/numbering.text
index 627eef8f..43d5a33b 100644
--- a/test/tm-cases/numbering.text
+++ b/test/tm-cases/numbering.text
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
-Image 1: Let's Rick Roll You
+[#imagenumbers Image @rickroll: Let's Rick Roll You]
-And we can refer to the rickrolling image as Image 1. There is a second image of something else
+And we can refer to the rickrolling image as Image [@rickroll]. There is a second image of something else
-Figure 2: I for one welcome our new insect overlords
+[#imagenumbers Figure @kent: I for one welcome our new insect overlords]
-So we can refer to Figure 1 and Figure 2 separately.
+So we can refer to Figure [@rickroll] and Figure [@kent] separately.
Here is a table
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
-Table 1: An example table
+[#tablenumbers Table @exampletable: An example table]
-Which we can refer to as table 1
+Which we can refer to as table [@exampletable]
And so we are done.
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